Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

A panel of judges, selected by Social Actions will choose three winners from among the 20 finalists, to be announced at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference , April 28, 2009. Submissions period begins on February 23, 2009, at 11 am PST, and runs through April 3, 2009, at 3 pm PST. How To Participate.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Brian Rowe has put together a great panel at the 2009 NTC , " Fair Use, User Generated Content, Terms of Service and the DMCA Safe Harbor Act " I'll be the first to admit that intellectual property law sounds like it could replace the Tylenol PM in my travel bag. We use Creative Commons to license all of our reports, etc. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2015

It was launched in 2009, and as of May 2015, it contains 83,000+ recordings. Search comes with a few nifty features like filtering by BPM (beats per minute, or the tempo of the song), duration, or what kind of license is associated with the track in question. Choose the Right License for Your Project. Customize your search.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

"As of May 13, 2011, we are releasing the code for our community software platform, the Zanby Enterprise Group Family System, under a GPLv3 license. Demand Dignity is an economic, cultural, and social rights campaign for the organization and the online platform, DemandDignity.org, was launched in May 2009.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

With the new release (and as with the 2009 version) both single - and multi-user versions (with 3 licenses) are available. Additionally, an organization with a QuickBooks product that has three-user licenses can acquire a single-user license of the same QuickBooks product and convert those into a four-user product.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.14.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Thanks for a great site!! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I stopped at the license agreement. I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) It booted fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. “bad&# companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 2009, we finalized a technology plan. At this point, the servers were aging and needed to be replaced, and we needed new software and user licenses (MS Exchange Server), as well. When the analysis was done, I created a proposal with my recommendations, which was approved by October 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). Although they weren’t doing it when I made the purchase, Dell is now including licensed DVD playback software. And that’s just so stupid. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.) So what’s the right strategy? That totally depends on a few factors. First, are you happy with your current CRM and CMS?

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See3

MAY 4, 2009

We’re back from 3 full days of the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , and energized by meeting people doing such good work all around the world. We announce the winners of the 2009 DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards at the closing lunch on Tuesday to a packed ballroom. You Made a Video, No What?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. ” IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. In the recession year of 2009, order volume increased 16 percent. More Power, Lower Prices.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3). However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds. Banks were not lending.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

The late 2009 release of the Open Government Directive is really exciting and I'd like to see an analog in the nonprofit community -- an Open Nonprofit Directive if you will, to encourage transparency, participation and collaboration. Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address? We're in a deep recession.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. Wikipedia Loves Art, Take Two In June of 2009, Dutch Wikimedians tried again.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program. " She requested the one user license version of QuickBooks and began using the product herself. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program. " She requested the one user license version of QuickBooks and began using the product herself. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

For instance, Uber has transformed the taxi industry in the decade following its inception in 2009,and now dominates 69 percent of the ride-sharing market. In January 2016, SEIU-UHW West organized licensed Vocational Nurses (IVNs) to create a union-co-op, Nursing and Caregivers Cooperative, Inc.—although

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Tech Soup

MAY 29, 2009

While we're on the subject of fundraising, NTEN and M+R Strategic Services have released their eNonprofit Benchmarks Study for 2009 ( Robert blogged about last year's report). Photo: Ann Althouse , CC license. Jeff admits that he doesn't have concrete proof for this one, but I plan to hold onto it and keep quoting it for shock value.

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